Post by WLViking on May 14, 2013 20:15:59 GMT -5

Game PlayIn the small, friendly music community of Bonnaroo, a crafty Mafia have infiltrated the population.

Every day, the population (all live players) gather to discuss whom they think is a member of the Mafia. There is a vote, and the one with the majority is executed. The Townspeople must do this in order to clean Bonnaroo of the Mafia and restore its peaceful vibe.

Every night the Mafiosi decide amongst themselves who to ruthlessly assassinate. At the beginning of each morning, people learn that one of their own has been killed.

Through disrupting the votes and performing their assassinations, the Mafia will try to eliminate Townspeople to the point that they are in the majority and they will rule Bonnaroo forever.

Thus, the Townspeople's great hope is the Inspector. This is a secret figure, known only to him or herself, that has inside information on the identity of the Mafiosi. S/he can covertly use this information to influence the votes towards the Mafiosi. But s/he better watch his/her step, because if the Mafia gets wind it will be lights out.

Good luck.

Rules1) The Referee randomly chooses from the 11 players three Mafiosi and one Inspector. All the rest are Townspeople. Each player is informed of their role via PM, and are not allowed to share that information with one another except in the official Mafia game thread. The Mafia are informed of one another's identity, and they are allowed to converse among themselves via PM. To put it plainly:a) If you are not a member of the mafia, do not discuss the mafia game outside the mafia thread with any other player or with any non-player who might discuss the game with a player.b) If you are a member of the mafia, you may discuss the game freely among your fellow mafia only. Do not discuss the game outside of this thread with any non-mafia player.

2) The Inspector is informed of his/her part, and also of the identity of one randomly chosen Mafia player. The inspector may at any time reveal their identity to the players within the thread. (see game play warnings above).

3) Each day a vote is held for the player to be eliminated. For online play, deliberation and voting is combined; thus, you can vote and explain yourself in the same post. Every player is free to change their vote at any point up until the last vote is in and the Ref declares that voting is closed. The Referee will then post the final tally, and announce which player is eliminated and how they died. Then will begin the Night portion of the round.

4) During the Night, the Mafia decide on the player they want to eliminate (assassinate), and inform the Referee via PM. Once the Referee receives this info, it is posted here in the thread, the player is eliminated, and the following Day begins.

5) Likewise during the night the Inspector will PM the Referee and guess one player's Mafia status. The Referee will respond with a 'yes' or 'no' answer.

6) Play continues until all the Mafia have been killed (Townspeople win), or the Mafia out number the Townspeople (Mafia win).

7) Player roles will not be revealed until the game has concluded.

8) AKA The Bek Rule: Players who have been eliminated are still welcome to post in this thread, but are asked to not say anything leading to any knowledge, suspicions or opinions you might have.This includes use of the Like/Dislike feature.

9) The ref will do the death stories/videos.

10) AKA The kdogg Rule: There will be no sharing of role PMs inside the thread or outside for the purpose of disclosing your role to another player. This also goes for password sharing. Common sense should be used, no discussion of your roles, except between Mafia, outside the thread - EVER.

11) Voting will be open for 36 hours each round, or until everyone has cast their vote - whichever comes first. Voting will never follow the 36-hour rule on the weekends. The Referee will only ever close voting on a Saturday or Sunday if all players have already cast their vote. If a player has not voted by that time, their vote will not be counted. If a player misses two votes, they are out of the game regardless of how good your reason is. When it is decided that a player is out, they will be killed off during the day alongside whoever would have been killed by vote.a) If the Inspector has not made a guess within 36 hours during a Night round, the Inspector will forfeit that guess.b) If the Mafia have not reported a whack victim within 36 hours during a Night round, the Mafia will forfeit that whack and the Townspeople will receive another round of voting during that Night round to offset the missed whack.

12) The Referee shall neither answer an Inspector's inquiry nor execute a Mafia's chosen victim until after having received both the Inspector's inquiry and the Mafia's chosen victim. If the Inspector is the victim, the Inspector is not owed an answer from the Referee. The Referee shall only accept victim names from living Mafia players.

13) AKA The Bacon Rule: The bigger the whiner, the smaller the wiener.

Post by WLViking on May 14, 2013 20:16:40 GMT -5

“Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. There was no joy in the brilliance of sunshine. The long stretches of the waterway ran on, deserted, into the gloom of overshadowed distances. On silvery sandbanks hippos and alligators sunned themselves side by side. The broadening waters flowed through a mob of wooded islands; you lost your way on that river as you would in a desert, and butted all day long against shoals, trying to find the channel, till you thought yourself bewitched and cut off forever from everything you had known once -somewhere- far away in another existence perhaps. There were moments when one's past came back to one, as it will sometimes when you have not a moment to spare to yourself; but it came in the shape of an unrestful and noisy dream, remembered with wonder amongst the overwhelming realities of this strange world of plants, and water, and silence. And this stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention. It looked at you with a vengeful aspect.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

How strange and fragile life seems when all at once, humanity is thrust into the natural world with all its majesty and cruelty. Bonnaroo; the tie that binds all 11 of our intrepid adventurers to each other. Each traveler was selected to take part in this exploration of the natural world that exists in the rainforests of the Congo, and collectively share their experiences at Bonnaroo during the greening lecture series. Visions of lush tropical vegetation, exotic flowers, and inquisitive monkeys danced in their vision as the prepared for the trip. Somehow, in all the excitement and anticipation, the harsh realities of survival in the natural world were lost.

As our 11 intrepid bonnarovians steam up-river, they are faced with the stark juxtaposition of the silence of the natural world versus the bright lights and loud beats they are anticipating at the farm. As it did so many years ago on Conrad’s famous journey to find Mr. Kurtz, there is a certain unease in the air. In this part of the world, progress is slow, and change comes slowly. While watching the dock shrink to nothing, it dawns on all of our travelers, that although their boat may be better, the jungle still has a certain menace to it. The silence whispered hints of the cruel intent that awaited those who ventured too far from the path on the journey.

“You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appalls me. There is a taint of death, a flavor of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.”― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Ah, but the cruelty of nature is nothing compared to the evil of man. 3 members of the party were journeying for a more nefarious purpose. In this part of the world, the foulest forms of infectious disease fester, thrive, mutate and grow. They test their metal against the jungle and only the strongest survive, creating time-bombs of virulence for anyone interested in finding them. Those 3 were in search of the perfect weapon to unleash at Bonnaroo this year.

“the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future”― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

As the river slides by, a note outlining the intent, but not naming the members of the plot flutters into the hands of an innocent townie. Realizing that the others know of their plot, the nefarious mafia plots to kill their other voyagers in order to keep their secret. The town must rise up and fight back. Only those 8 voyagers stand in the way of the horrors that are promised for the festival if they fail. Who will emerge from the jungle?

Only one can prevail. Will it be a good, kind heart or a heart of darkness?

Post by o'neil on May 15, 2013 8:58:11 GMT -5

bogart, just wondering why BlackAmy? I get that on the first day, pretty much all guesses are random... but I'm curious.

Edit: I guess because the other voters made reference to their picks being VP's, or the apparently often-used "Mike D is mafia", is why this one jumped out at me since there is no kind of explanation attached. I don't mean to pick on you. unless you're mafia.

Post by bogart on May 15, 2013 9:26:38 GMT -5

bogart, just wondering why BlackAmy? I get that on the first day, pretty much all guesses are random... but I'm curious.

Edit: I guess because the other voters made reference to their picks being VP's, or the apparently often-used "Mike D is mafia", is why this one jumped out at me since there is no kind of explanation attached. I don't mean to pick on you. unless you're mafia.

She was new, wanted to see how she would react. That and it was random. I feel like that's a better reason than "mike d is always mafia", which in my mind is the worst reasoning ever (being selected is random, I could have been mafia 100 times in a row but that doesn't change the odds for this game).

Post by o'neil on May 15, 2013 9:33:02 GMT -5

bogart, just wondering why BlackAmy? I get that on the first day, pretty much all guesses are random... but I'm curious.

Edit: I guess because the other voters made reference to their picks being VP's, or the apparently often-used "Mike D is mafia", is why this one jumped out at me since there is no kind of explanation attached. I don't mean to pick on you. unless you're mafia.

She was new, wanted to see how she would react. That and it was random. I feel like that's a better reason than "mike d is always mafia", which in my mind is the worst reasoning ever (being selected is random, I could have been mafia 100 times in a row but that doesn't change the odds for this game).

Post by o'neil on May 15, 2013 13:30:52 GMT -5

o'neil>>>TejasI don't want Boneroo to just be automatically voted off. maybe he is a townie and the mafia are happy with how votes are going, which is why no one else voted for anyone who already had one vote. I went with Tejas because he was trying to wrap it up quickly. I have no real sense for where anyone stands yet.